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Putting it briefly: Pishgaman dominates Tour de Singkarak
Prepared: Two cyclists of the Kinan Cycling Team from Japan are seen wearing face masks due to haze at a starting point for stage six of the Tour de Singkarak international cycling race in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra on Thursday
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Prepared: Two cyclists of the Kinan Cycling Team from Japan are seen wearing face masks due to haze at a starting point for stage six of the Tour de Singkarak international cycling race in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra on Thursday.(JP/Syofiardi Bachyul Jb) (JP/Syofiardi Bachyul Jb)
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span class="inline inline-center">Prepared: Two cyclists of the Kinan Cycling Team from Japan are seen wearing face masks due to haze at a starting point for stage six of the Tour de Singkarak international cycling race in Bukittinggi, West Sumatra on Thursday.(JP/Syofiardi Bachyul Jb)
The Pishgaman Giant Team from Iran dominated stage six of the Tour de Singkarak international cycling race in West Sumatra on Thursday.
Thursday's race, which stretched 116 kilometers from Bukittinggi municipality to Istano Basa Pagaruyung palace in Tanah Datar regency, saw Pishgaman's Arvin Moazemi Goudarzi taking the yellow jersey, or race leader, from team mate Amir Zargari with a time of 20 hours, 15 minutes and 38 seconds and winning polka dot jersey (top climber) with 77 points.
Goudarzi said that Zargari's failure to defend his yellow jersey was a result of his being unwell. 'It is OK, though, because I could nail it.'
Another Pishgaman team member Hosen Askari grabbed green jersey (top sprinter) by collecting 14 points as he won stage six in a time of 3:29:50. The second and third places went to Pishgaman's Moazemi and Rahim Emami.
Indonesian Dadi Suryadi of Pegasus Continental Cycling Team snatched the orange (top Southeast Asian) and red-and-white (top Indonesian) jerseys with a time of 20:28:26.
Ninety three cyclists took part in stage six, the shortest stage of the 1,343.1 km race.
The nine-stage race has so far mainly been challenged by haze, which has resulted in 'unhealthy' levels of air quality, forcing some of the participating cyclists to wear face masks while racing.
